PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Eleanor Maccoby, Real Sex, Gender Role
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Janet hyde argue that sex differences have been exaggerated and that there is so much overlap between the sexes on most personality traits that the differences are minimal. Women were slightly better than men at verbal ability: 2. Men were slightly better than women in mathematical ability and spatial ability. Large difference: when comparing men to women, positive d scores indicate that men score higher than women, negative d scores indicate that women score higher than men. 3: whatever differences exist do not have much practical importance for behaviour in everyday life. Sex differences in personality: the five factor model of personality provides a convenient framework for organizing a number of findings about sex differences in personality. Table 16. 1 effect sizes for sex differences in facets of personality: the five-factor. Note: positive numbers means men tend to score higher than women, and negative numbers mean women tend to score higher than men.
